People of the Muslim religion split into two groups. , Commodore Matthew Perry sails to Japan's coast to begin trade with the U.S. , The British Raj begins ruling India , The Berlin Conference - European Countries decide how to divide up the African continent into colonies , World War I begins , World War I ends - the Middle East is partitioned after the fall of the Ottoman Empire , World War II begins , The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, HI and the U.S. enters WWII, Harry Truman gives permission for the U.S. to drop atomic bombs on Japan, Japan surrenders ending WWII , Cold War begins - the Truman Doctrine is announced , India gains independence from Britian and is partitioned creating Pakistan , Gandhi is assassinated , The State of Israel is created , The People's Republic of China a communist country is created , The Great Leap Forward, a plan to rapidly industrialize China began, North Korea invaded South Korea starting the Korean War, The U.S. occupation of Japan ended and it became a soverign nation , The Korean War ends in an armistice , The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends the First Indochina War, Vietnam is free from French Control, Nigeria and Kenya gain independence from British colonial rule, Vietnam War ends when Saigon falls to the Nortk Vietnamese/Vietcong, Hundreds of Chinese citizens are injured or killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre , Iraq invaded Kuwait and the U.S. and UN send troops to help starting the Persian Gulf War , Apartheid in South Africa ends , Nelson Mandala is elected as the first black president of South Africa , al-Queda carries out an attack on the United States by hijacking planes and crashing them into builings killing thousands, The U.S. invades Afghanistan to find Osama Bin Laden and members of al-Queda, The U.S. invades Iraq to find WMDs and take down Saddam Hussein , A terrorist group from Palestine attacks Israel, beginning a war between the two groups over land .

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